Discord Leaks Tip of Digital Iceberg
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/29/intelligence-leaks-accountability/
The rise of digitalization of information has led to humongous active and static national security archives easily added to and taken from by cleared users in government and industry.
Way too few of these users are deeply adept at cybersecurity and the hosting organizations suffer lack of skills and management for the new kinds of communications and operations.
Commerce and researchers have jumped at the opportunity to provide tools and personnel to satisfy, ostensibly, what is needed. Even the natsec agencies are running training programs at universities and in-house to attact youngsters, many of which possess skills not as common in oldsters.
No surprise that the Discord Leaker shared his apititude on games fora and his offerings spread quickly by similar participants untethered by chains of command, non-disclosure agreements and national borders.
It will likely take a generation or more to develop means and methods for keeping secrets so readily available in electronic format. Take note that the media quickly exploited the airman's digital photos of paper which some out-of-date security wizard overseeing a SCIF thought would be sufficient. Plain old encryption would have been much better.
Added to the risk of voluminous digital archives and operational plans are those by opportunistic firms inventing and selling hacking tools, soliciting leaks by insiders, hiring former intelligence officials. It might be wondered if there is a far darker world of info-theft than the highly publicized few cases. Spies are known to run those kind of ops.
Attend somes sessions sponsored by AFIO, INSA, Army-Navy-AirForce-NatSec-industry confabs for eye-ear-nose-and-liquor loose-tongue gab fests.
C'est la vie.